Entrecard tries to overhaul its strategy

Entrecard has made some changes to their system. In an email sent out by them, this is what was captured:

Buy credits for less: Entrecard is now selling 1,000 credits for $6.00.

More pricing increments: Instead of prices doubling every time, there are now a few more steps. The new price points can be found on the Advertising page in the wiki

Members are not allowed to sell credits

Credit transfer limits: Members are allowed to make a maximum of 14 credit transfers a week, up to a maximum of 1,000 credits, whichever comes first.

Transfer tax: From now on, all transfers, including transfers made with our new payments API, will be taxed at a rate of 12.5%. The taxed credits will be sold to members (see #1).

Blogs cannot be unlinked: Once you link a blog, it’s there for good unless you ask us to delete the blog from your account. This prevents linking/unlinking to get around the credit transfer limits, and it also stops you losing access to a blog if you unlink it in error, which happens a lot.

No more coupons: You are no longer allowed to send coupons.

Shop closed: Except for Entrecard upgrades (Featured Status, Fast Pass) the Entrecard Shop is now offline until further notice

Its interesting to see how some of this will be taken by the Entrecard community.

You might have noticed that I do not use Entrecard any longer on this blog. I’ve used it for long, and did not find it worth the real estate space it was taking up, hence I removed it a few days ago.